Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
About the Role
You'll sit in our Stockholm control room and drive robots working in real stores across Sweden and Finland. When a robot hits something it can't solve on its own, you take over and finish the job. Customers are waiting on the other end, so the work is real and the feedback is immediate. This is the best seat in the house if you want to see how a robotics company actually works from the inside. We recruit on a rolling basis as demand grows.
What You’ll Do
Operate robots remotely to complete replenishment, inbounding, and tidying tasks in customer stores
Handle exceptions the robot can’t handle alone, and flag the ones that keep recurring
Log what you see so the engineering team can fix root causes
What We’re Looking For
Sharp and a fast learner, able to pick up a new interface quickly
Comfortable with technical systems and computers
Can-do, low ego, and steady under pressure
Reliable, with strong ownership and follow-through when you’re on shift
Service-minded, with a clear sense that store staff and shoppers see the result of your work
Available for nights, since that is the standard schedule for this role
Fluent in English
Swedish and retail experience are a plus
You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage
Why Join
Join as one of our first operators and help shape how we run robot operations
Nights are where we need the most support, and we pay above the day rate for them
Flexible part-time work alongside studies or another job
Clear path to a full-time position for strong performers
Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
You'll run the control room while it's live: a team of teleoperators driving robots in stores across Sweden and Finland. When a shift goes sideways, the calls are yours — what gets escalated, what waits, and who takes which store. There's a customer on the other end of every one of those decisions. You'll start on day shifts and move onto nights, because nights are where most of the operating happens and where a lead is needed most. We recruit for this role on a rolling basis as demand grows.
Run the room on your shift: coverage, store allocation, and escalation decisions
Lead the teleoperators working under you and set the standard for how the work gets done
Own handover so the next shift starts knowing exactly what happened on yours
Train new teleoperators as the room grows
Flag recurring exceptions so they reach the people who can fix them properly
Calm judgment when several things break at once
Comfortable with technical systems, including reading what a robot is telling you
Willing to make decisions rather than wait for one
Good with people, including supporting an operator having a hard night
Willing to move onto nights over time
Fluent in English; Swedish is a plus
Experience leading a shift-based team is a plus — retail, hospitality, logistics or warehouse floor all count
You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately we're not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage
Become the first lead in a control room that will keep growing under you
Start on days while learning the room, then take ownership of nights
Have a real say in how we staff and run robot operations as we scale
Work closely with the engineers building what you operate
Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
Every night, robots run shifts in real stores. Each of those shifts has to be planned, staffed, executed, debriefed, and turned into something better than the shift before it. Someone has to own that system. That's this role. You'll work as the right hand to our Head of Operations, based with the team at our Stockholm office. You'll run store launches, build the operating model that our shift leads and teleoperators work from, and sit in the middle of the loop between customers, the control room, and the engineers building the robot. It's the role with the widest view of how this company actually runs.
Own the operations playbook: how a store gets launched, how a shift gets run, how a problem gets escalated
Run store launches end to end, from site prep and install through first shifts and handover
Build the systems the shift organisation depends on — staffing, checklists, reporting, escalation paths
Turn what happens on shift into decisions: what engineering fixes next, what changes before the next launch
Be the operational point of contact for our customers between launches
A strong bachelor's or master's, and the analytical instinct that comes with it: you can look at a messy operation and find the structure in it
High agency: you see the gap and close it without being asked
Good with people across the range, from a store manager on a busy day to an operator at 3am to an engineer mid-sprint
Comfortable in a fast-moving, unfinished environment where the plan changes
Willing to travel to customer stores in Sweden and Finland
Fluent in English; Swedish is a plus
We expect to fill this role in November or December 2026, so we may not be able to offer an immediate start
You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately we're not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage
Work directly with the Head of Operations
Get broad exposure to launches, deployments, and customer-facing operations
Help build the processes that make scaling possible
Take on meaningful responsibility early
Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
You’ll work hands-on with the robot and make it survive real stores. Grippers, actuators, sensors, wiring, mounts, whatever the robot needs. Some of it will be properly engineered. Some of it needs to work by Thursday. You should be comfortable with both.
Build, fix, and improve electrical and mechanical subsystems on the robot
Deploy robots into stores and see firsthand where they break
Fix what’s broken, then turn what you learn into the next version of the hardware
Work across the whole stack: electronics, wiring, and integration
Build and test prototypes of new designs
High agency: when something is broken, you fix it, whether or not it’s your job
A very fast learner, happy to research unfamiliar problems as they come up
A tinkerer or maker who has taken more things apart than they’ve put back together
A generalist comfortable across a broad range of components and disciplines
Able to make something work in the short term and improve it later without confusing the two
At home in a chaotic, fast-moving environment
We expect to fill this role in November or December 2026
You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage
How to apply: Tell us about something you built or fixed on your own, and link to it (project, repo, video, photos).
Build on real robots operating in real stores
Work across disciplines rather than in a narrow silo
Learn quickly from field deployments and hardware feedback
Help shape the next version of the system
Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
You’ll build the autonomy that lets our robots work shelves and pallets in live stores. This is a software role: you’ll work closely with hardware, but you won’t design it. We care about what works in a store at 6am, not what wins a benchmark, and that usually means combining learned policies with classical methods rather than picking a side.
Develop and deploy manipulation and navigation policies on real robots in real stores
Work with VLAs and modern learned control alongside classical planning, perception, and control
Decide which approach fits which problem, and be right about it often enough
Own problems from store observation to shipped behavior
Hands-on experience getting software to run on real robots, not only in simulation
Clear on the tradeoffs between classical and learned approaches
A fast learner who can define the problem before solving it
Comfortable with chaos and speed
We expect to fill this role in November or December 2026
You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage
How to apply: We highly encourage you to tell us about something you built or shipped and link to it (repo, video, paper, or project).
Work on practical autonomy problems in live retail environments
Build systems that ship to stores, not just demos or benchmarks
Influence technical direction early
Take meaningful ownership in a fast-moving team
Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store.
The role
We design and assemble our own robot platform in-house. It’s CE-marked and working in customer stores, and it’s far from done. Hardware is where we need to level up the most, and you’ll own it: how the robot looks, how well it’s built, and how it gets produced at scale. From concept and CAD through prototyping and 3D printing to manufacturing and assembly. You’ll see your work running in stores within weeks.
What you'll do
Own the robot’s design: concept and visualize new products and subsystems
Model structures, mechanisms and enclosures in CAD
Prototype rapidly and iterate from what you see in stores
Design for manufacturing and assembly, and take designs through to production
Apply solid hardware fundamentals: GD&T, tolerances, tooling, material selection
Set the quality bar for what ships and what doesn’t
What we're looking for
A track record of taking a physical product from concept to production. It exists in the real world, not just in renders
High taste: in how the product looks, and in where the bar sits for what’s acceptable
High agency: you spot the problem and ship the fix without being told
Comfortable in a fast-moving, unfinished environment where the plan changes
Ready for long weeks when it matters and demos that have to work tomorrow
Fluent in English; Swedish is a plus
You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage
How to apply: Include a portfolio link showing physical products you’ve built. Your portfolio is the most important part of your application.
Why join
A founding role with ownership of the hardware
Meaningful equity
See your designs running in real stores within weeks
Shape the next version of the robot